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Quartz from
Merry Widow Mine, Port McNeill, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Merry Widow Mine, Port McNeill, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:302072
Long-form Identifier:1:3:302072:2
GUID (UUID V4):64cd4a6d-f134-446c-888e-5845526c2926
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
25.1km (15.6 miles) Monteith Bay quarry, Alberni Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
31.5km (19.6 miles) Island Copper Mine (Utah Mines Ltd.), Port Hardy, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
40.0km (24.9 miles) Patmore Mine (Fil-Mil Mine), Amai Inlet (Deep Inlet), Kyuquot Sound, Alberni Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
47.6km (29.6 miles) Privateer Mine, Zeballos, Alberni Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
50.7km (31.5 miles) Zeballos, Alberni Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
64.3km (40.0 miles) Red Dog copper-molybdenum deposit, Holberg, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
67.3km (41.8 miles) ORP As-Hg Occurrence, San Josef River Area, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (volume)
Gemstone and Mineral Sites of British Columbia Volume I: Vancouver Island LIDAARY Digitized by the Internet...Gemstone and Mineral Sites of British Columbia Volume I: Vancouver Island Rick Hudson OrCA BOOK PUBLISHERS...mineral sites of British Columbia Includes index. Contents: Vol. I, Vancouver Island ISBN 1-55143-057-6...and mineral resources — British Columbia. 2. Prospecting — British Columbia. I. Title TN27.B7H82 1996...Printed and bound in Canada Orca Book Publishers PO Box 5626, Station B Victoria, BC Canada V8R 6S4 GE) 3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAGNETITE BRITISH G. E. ON VANCOUVER COLUMBIA ISLAND, • P. EASTWOOD ABSTRACT Magnetite on Vancouver Island...resultsof a fieldstudyof severalmagnetite depositson Vancouver Islandandconsiders possible originsof the magnetite...pastdozenyearsmagnetite mininghasblossomed alongthe coastof British Columbia. The individualdeposits are relativelysmall...narrowingthe search. Magnetite depositson the British Columbia coast have been examined at varioustimesduring...Resources. 124 REPLACEMENT MAGNETITE I' ON VANCOUVER ISLAND ' 125 [ FIG. 1. VancouverIsland. Areas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Petrology of Iron Skarnsin Western British Columbia, Canada LAWRENCE D. MEINERT Departmentof Geology...Most of thesedeposits were formed in an oceanic island-arc environment and were later accreted to continental...of six calciciron skarn depositsin western British Columbia documentsseveralimportant differencesfrom...andgeometries. calcic iron skarns which form in oceanic island-arc As a groupthesedepositssharethe generalfeatures... '"l7 , ...., Geology and Tectonic Setting British Columb •?•'i)) . Iron Crown .a Iron Hill
Report (issue)
SURVEY CIRCULAR 189 URANIUM OCCURRENCES ON MERRY WIDOW CLAIM WHITE SIGNAL DISTRICT GRANT COUNTY, N.MEX...SURVEY CIRCULAR 189 URANIUM OCCURRENCES ON THE MERRY WIDOW CLAIM WHITE SIGNAL DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY NEW...Washington 25, D. C. UKANIUM OCCURRENCES ON THE MERRY WIDOW CLAIM WHITE SIGNAL DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY, NEW............................ Pegmatite and barren quartz veins ............................ Diabase and............. Latite(?).......................... Quartz monzonite porphyry ......... Diorite(?).......
Report (issue)
New Mexico seem to be the most promising for the mining of uranium ore. In western San Juan County, on...associated with nickel, cobalt, and silver minerals in quartz veins cutting pre-Cambrian granite. On the Terry...uranium ore. The few tons of ore available on the Merry Widow claim in the White Signal district and the presence...information available on uranium deposits and uranium mining activity in New Mexico before 1952.1 The report...in 1952. HISTORY OF URANIUM INVESTIGATIONS AND MINING The earliest mention in geologic literature of
Report (volume)
complexly zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of garnet...In recent years, a significant proportion of the mining industry's interest has been centered on discovery...found in Paleozoic and Cenozoic orogenic-belt and island-arc settings and are associated with felsic to...(diopside-hedenbergite), wollastonite, chlorite, epidote, quartz, actinolite-tremolite, and (or) calcite. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION Gold exploration efforts of the mining industry in the last few years have centered on discovery
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada and Microanalytical Facilities, University of...of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada Abstract Textural and compositional data for magnetite...magnetite from nine iron skarn deposits in Canada, Romania, and China show that most samples have reequilibrated...the Iron Crown, Merry Widow, Paxton, Forsyth, Bristol, and Marmoration deposits in Canada, the Terezia Mica...Bristol, Canada Marmoration, Canada Terezia Mica, Romania Daye, China Chengchao, China Merry Widow, Canada
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Leach, 1920) at the Merry elsewhere(Gillerman, 1964). Late Cretaceousor Widow mine in the White Signal...found at the Black Hawk mine in the Bullard Peak district (Leach, 1920). Mining of torbernite for its radium...district. Early mining, between 1890 and 1900, was for silver. Alhambra When the 19 mine was rehabilitated...predominantlyof granite, but large areasof gneissic quartz diorite, and smaller scattered areas of other ...EXPLANATION GRAVELS VOLCANIC ROCKS CRETACEOUS QUARTZ SEDIMENTS MONZONITE RHYOLITE INTRUSIVE PLUGS
Report (issue)
1987 INTRODUCTION A significant proportion of mining industry's interest in the last few years has been...Goosly), British Columbia; Salsigne, France; Pamlico, Nevada; Red Cloud, Nevada; Island Copper, British Columbia;...Bi-bearing skarns (Stormant) are known in the Moina Mining District, Tasmania, Australia, which is largely...Gold Company; and Edward I. Bloomstein of Santa Fe Mining. GEOLOGIC DESCRIPTION Deposit type: Other Names:...setting: In North America, mostly cordiHeran and island-arc settings; some in rifted craton. Emplacement
Report (issue)
Geologic Division of the Geological Survey on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials and the Division of Research...Geological Survey, Lexington, Ky.; W. D. Hardman, Division of Geology, State Office Building, Nashville,..., Results of exploration at the Old Leyden coal mine, Jefferson County, Colo.: TEM-292, Mar. 30, 1953...Hinrichs, E. N., The pegmatites of the Errington-Thiel mine, Elko County, Nev.: TEI-71, Dec. 28, 1949. Office...uranothorite in fluorite breccias from the Blue Jay mine, Jamestown, Boulder County, Colo.: TEI-144, Oct
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
produced. However, terranes dominated byoceanic island-arc rocks contain over 80 percentof theskarns andhaveaccounted...developed duringEarlyto MiddleJurassic oceanic island-arc activityin Wrangellia, Quesnellia, andStikinia...occurrences of skarn in British MethodsUsedto Compilethe BritishColumbia Columbia. Over97percent oftheseoccurrences...amounts of metallicminerals, andtheyare reThe British Columbiageoscience informationsystem gardedto be...AGE, B.C. 9'21 of Erin (Cu) SurpriseLake(an) Columbia '•v," CC i• OUTER PR Pacific TE•.•X•.S Rim •
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fine-grainedmetasomaticallyaltered aluminousor Canada,the UnitedStates,Mexico,Japan,and Korea siliceousrocks...Pass (Mactung), Yukon-N.W.T., Canada CanadaTungsten (Cantung), N.W.T., Canada Sasanodeposit Yoshiokamine...Yoshiokamine, SW Japan Victoria mine, Nevada DouglasHill and CastingCopper mines(Yerington district),Nevada Caporebasin...Quebec, Canada Additional examples (numbers refer to localities on Fig. 1) 1. Empire mine, B.C., Canada...Canada (Sangster, 1969;Haug, 1976) 2. Larap, Camarines Norte, Philippines (Frost,1965) •. Daiquiri,
Report (volume)
Geologic Division of the Geological Surrey on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials and the Division of Research...Finch, W. I., Geology of the Shinarump No. 1 uranium mine, Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah: TEI-287..., Results of exploration at the Old Leyden coal mine, Jefferson County, Colo.: TEM-292, Mar. 30, 1953...Hinrichs, E, N., The pegmatites of the Errington-Thiel mine, Elko County, Nevada: TEI-71, Dec. 28, 1949. Office...uranothorite in fluorite breccias from the Blue Jay mine, Jamestown, Boulder County, Colo.: TEI-144, Oct
Report (issue)
of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Mineral Deposits... by Elliot Gillerman NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY KENNETH W. FoRD, President NEW MEXICO...PATRICIA E. CANDELARIA, Secretary JAMES M. ROBERTSON, Mining Geologist RoNALD J. RoMAN, Chief Research Metallurgist... . . 7 Climate and vegetation 8 HISTORY OF MINING 9 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quartz diorite gneiss (tonalite) . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uranophane. The 3-cm specimen is from the Number 20 mine near Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina...2-cm uraninite cube from the Cardiff mine, Wdberforce, Ontario, Canada;Canadian Museum of Nature specimen...octahedral faces have been found at the Deer Park mine in and on coarse brown biotite and associated with...been collected from dumps of the Chestnut Flats mine. Nodular masses of uraninite to 10 cm across, commonly...and feldspar producers. The Fanny Gooch (or Gouge) mine in adjacent Yancy County has been the source of
Journal (issue)
U30g mine operations on Ambrosia’'s western trend. Special report by Richard Fitch »23 British Columbia...new operation unparalleled for efficiency. 4a division for flotation In the milling section, four banks...Steel Products for basic industries Grinding Rods + Mine Rails and Accessories + Rock Bolts * Metallic Fabric...Cities MINING WORLD MINING cm WORLD IT’S A FACT* October 1961 VOL. 23, No. 11 Humboldt Mining Company’s...geology of the ore bodies, as well as details of mining methods. The two mines, Black Jack No. 1 and No
Report (issue)
of the quartz-pyrite veins of the White Signal district............................... Quartz-molybdenite............... Quartz-specularite veins........................................... Quartz-pyrite veins...porphyritic and equigranular intrusives of dominantly quartz monzodioritic composition. The porphyritic rocks...of the Tyrone stock. During the late stages of quartz monzodiorite crystallization, numerous dikes were...east-northeast-striking fractures and faults. Some of the quartz monzodiorite porphyry dikes cut the Tyrone stock
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
T. J. SHEPHERD, J. F. W. BOWLES,**AND M. BROOK British GeologicalSurvey,Geochemistry Directorate,64-78...Chlorite-calciteretrogressivealterationof the skarnsis related to quartz veiningwhich is hostedby the volcanicmembersof...related to a nearby suite of Tertiary epithermal quartz veins. The bulk Au-Ag-Cu pattern and gold compositions...skarn ore (Bowleset al., 1985). The area around the mine workingswas not surveyedsystematically, but var-...west of the Pagaran Siayu mine. These form the so-called Sunda Parit mine where Cu appearsto havebeen
Book
~"' - ..\, . ~ / Geological Association of Canada g,A Mineral Deposits Divioon . I\ ~ I ORE...Mineral Deposits Division Series Editor Dirk Tempelman-Kluit Mineral Deposits Division Steering Committee...approximately 5 cm taii and is from the Eagle's Nest mine, Piacer County, California. Ross Beaty Collection...Mauthner. f I: ; It' !I National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data it I~ !I I I!...Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Oivis,on - L'Association geaogiQue du Canada, Division des gites mineraux
Report (volume)
Ministry of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Published for the Geological Society...Society of CIM as VOLUME 46 by the OF MINING, METALLURGY SPECIAL CANADIAN INSTITUTE NORTHWEST COMMUNITY...PETROLEUM COPYRIGHT © 1995 BY CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGY AND PETROLEUM Suite 1210, 3400 de Maisonneuve...Maisonneuve Boulevard West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3Z 3B8 ISBN 0-919086-56-X PRINTED BY HARPELL’S...PRESS COOPERATIVE Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada Preface CIM Special Volume 46 is organized into
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...(Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon...Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve: quartz (chalcedony)...stolzite. Wilcox district, S. of Mogollon. Lone Pine mine: emmonsite, khademite, lannonite,* mackayite, poughite...poughite, rajite,* tellurium, wilcoxite.* Sacaton mine, Blue Rock and Bit Spar prospects: fluorite. Volume
Report (volume)
deposit, Belgian Congo Deposits at Great Bear Lake, Canada ... Explanation of annotated bibliography. Annotated...Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor...Belgian Congo, and from the Eldorado mine, Great Bear Lake, Canada. The Shinkolobwe deposit since its initial...adjacent areas in Saxony; the Beaverlodge district, Canada; the Cornwall district, England; the Guarda and
Report (volume)
other adjacent islands, and Hawaii, Guam, and other island possessions, but not the trust territories of the...Washington, D. C. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Transactions. New York...-Arkansas Resources and Development Commission, Division of Geology Bulletin; Information Circular. Little...Breviora. Cambridge, Mass. British Columbia Dept. Mines Ann. Rept.; BulL-British Columbia Department of Mines...Mines Annual Report; Bulletin. Victoria, British Columbia. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. BulL-Buffalo Society of
Journal (issue)
Rutherford (rutherfordine). at McGill University in Canada made the discovery of some radioactive substances...Miniere du haul Katanga's Shinkolobwe .. radium .. mine. Other sources of radium soon developed on the Colorado...Phelps Dodge Corporation at their Tyrone, NM copper mine, in 1918. Two uranium minerals were recognized....bei ng able to make ends meet by digging in the mine dumps which have become depleted . Many o f the...addresses are S30 00 .,~, y.·· 1· addresses in Canada and Mexico are USS48.00 per yea r, all 1 :;1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magnetite mineralization, the Empire mine, Vancouver Island, British Columbia (HAUG, 1976). It should be noted...104, 328-331. HAUG J. L. (1976) Geology of the Merry Widow and Kingfisher contact metasomatic m - m a g...g n e t i t e deposits, northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. M.S. thesis, Univ. of Calgary, 117p...and petrology of iron skarns in western British Columbia, Canada. Econ. Geol. 79, 869-882. MEINERT L. D...zonation and fluid evolution in the Groundhog Mine, Central Mining District, New Mexico. Econ. Geol. 82, 523-545
 
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